Michael Shermer's Claim

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The ten points that Michael Shermer presents and wants people to know when encountering a claim are the sources’ reliability of the claim, sources making similar claims, sources’ validity, how the claim works with how the world works, counterarguments, the evidence’s importance, the logic behind the claim, solid evidence, claim having logic and evidence to explain the old phenomenons, and last, but not least, personal beliefs influencing the claim. Creation science breaks at least three of these points. One of the points that creation science breaks is that personal beliefs are driving the claim. Religion contributes tremendously to creation science. Because there is religion is involved with creationism, there is bias to it, and people who